17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
These are the golden emerods - Each of these cities, in what may be called its corporate capacity, sent a golden emerod.
And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for (i) Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
(i) These were the five principal cities of the Philistines, which were not all conquered to the time of David.
And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord,.... Along with the ark:
for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon, one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; which were the five principalities of the Philistines that belonged to the five lords before mentioned; and each of these were at the expense of a golden emerod, and sent it along with the ark to make atonement for the offence they had been guilty of in taking and detaining it.
And these are the golden emerods . . . and the mice--There were five representative images of the emerods, corresponding to the five principal cities of the Philistines. But the number of the golden mice must have been greater, for they were sent from the walled towns as well as the country villages.
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